GREENSBORO, Ga. — When the Cavaliers begin fall practice on Aug. 4, their quarterback situation will be just the way they left it at the end of spring — up for grabs.

Fifth-year senior Scott Deke and sophomores Peter Lalich and Marc Verica will vie for the job, which was vacated after two-year starter Jameel Sewell received a one-year academic suspension from the school last winter.

“What counts is what happens in competitive practice, and that’s just a small window of competition compared to games or anything else,” Virginia coach Al Groh said at the ACC Kickoff on Monday. “You have to have some criteria from which to make judgments and therefore slot the players, so whatever goes on the practice field is the only vehicle to do that.”

GREENSBORO, Ga. — Quarterback Sean Glennon is preparing for his fifth season in a Virginia Tech football uniform. He started at least nine games in each of the last two seasons, during which he proved capable of successfully running the Hokies’ offense.

GREENSBORO, Ga. — Virginia Tech senior quarterback Sean Glennon can add a couple more names to his impressive list of superstar advisers.

GREENSBORO, Ga. — The pressure’s nothing new. Cullen Harper is used to it. He is, after all, the starting quarterback at Clemson, home to a football-crazy fan base that would probably be quick to offer two thoughts about their beloved Tigers heading into a season in which they are the presumptive ACC favorites:

Liberty University rising senior Megan Frazee is preparing for a two-week tour of Northern Africa with a women’s basketball team from Athletes in Action. Frazee and her teammates will depart AIA headquarters, located in her hometown of Xenia, Ohio, on Sunday and return to the U.S. on Aug. 5. While in Africa, the AIA team will play a number of games as well as conduct clinics and spread the gospel.

The Liberty University Flames hope a new assistant coach can bring his winning ways from Division II to the men’s basketball program.

The Virginia football team will go retro when it hosts Richmond on Sept. 6 in the season’s second week, wearing throwback uniforms and helmets to honor 10 years of Cavaliers football from 1984-93.

Virginia Tech defensive backs Victor “Macho” Harris and Kam Chancellor were among the 40 players selected to the 2008 Jim Thorpe Award (nation’s best defensive back) watch list.

Liberty’s women’s basketball season ended in March with a loss in a tournament to a state rival from the Colonial Athletic Association.

The beginning of fall practice is still a month away, but Virginia Tech’s football team has already suffered a devastating injury loss.

Former Redskins greats Art Monk and Darrell Green are kicking off a statewide charity tour in anticipation of their induction into the NFL Hall of Fame later this summer.

EUGENE, Ore. — Danielle McNaney, a 2005 Liberty graduate, finished 12th in the final heptathlon standings Saturday at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials.

Take a look at any NFL stadium on a Sunday afternoon, and you’ll see advertisements for players’ charitable organizations.

Three North Carolina underclassmen decided that the NBA deep end was too deep for them and returned to the Roy Williams college of basketball knowledge last week.

Devin Radford, a fleet-footed transfer from Virginia Tech, hopes to make his mark at running back for Appalachian State.

Thursday night’s NBA Draft should be short on ACC players and long on one-and-doners.

Clendon Henderson can now look back fondly on an extremely painful moment: The first play of the first football scrimmage during his senior year at Meadow High School in rural Texas.

DURHAM - In the 29th summertime of Mike Krzyzewski’s Duke career, the living is easier.

For the second year in a row, the Flames football program received a preseason Top 25 nod in Lindy’s College Football Preview, as Liberty is ranked No. 19 in the 2008 edition of the magazine.

Presbyterian College won’t receive full Division I status until the 2011-2012 academic season. Until then, the Blue Hose will at least have something to play for in most sports.

TAMPA - Former Maryland center Gus Gilchrist, rated the nation’s No. 9 center as a senior in high school in 2007, will transfer to the University of South Florida, his trainer-adviser Terrelle Woody said Sunday.

Ty Lawson, Wayne Ellington and Danny Green are headed back to North Carolina after examining the NBA Draft process and finding it not to their liking.

The Big South Conference announced Monday that Liberty women’s basketball player Allyson Fasnacht has been named the Big South Conference’s Woman of the Year for 2007-08.

For more than nine months, defensive tackle David Wang stood as Virginia Tech’s only football commitment for 2009.

Soon after the Texas Rangers drafted former E.C. Glass standout Jared Bolden in the ninth round of Major League Baseball’s first-year player draft, a thought popped in Bolden’s mind.

CHARLOTTESVILLE—As signing day for football approached in February, fans and media members across the commonwealth raised this question time and again:

Why can’t U.Va. recruit in-state?

It’s easy to pinpoint why Jared Bolden’s draft stock has surged in recent weeks.

FULLERTON, Calif. — Cal State Fullerton’s Cory Arbiso limited Virginia to one run in a complete-game effort as the Titans, the No. 5 national seed in the NCAA tournament, eliminated Virginia from the NCAA Fullerton Regional with a 4-1 win Sunday.

OKLAHOMA CITY — During the Virginia Tech softball team’s trip to Arizona earlier this season, pitcher Angela Tincher and shortstop Misty Hall spotted a grasshopper and started chasing it. Routine playfulness. But what happened next could happen only to Hall: She stumbled into a cactus, jamming an inch-long piece of its spine into her leg. Blood pouring out of the wound, Hall started laughing.

CHAPEL HILL - Saturday was no ordinary spring day for Mason Plumlee.